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2 Kings 18:4

He removed the high places, shattered the sacred pillars, and cut down the Asherah poles. He also demolished the bronze snake called Nehushtan that Moses had made, for up to that time the Israelites had burned incense to it.

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  1. a Nehushtan sounds like the Hebrew for bronze and also for snake.

2 Kings 18:4 has 23 cross-references in the OpenBible.info data, 3 of them with at least 4 reader votes. The strongest point to 2 Chronicles 31:1 (8 votes) and Numbers 21:8–9 (7 votes). 31 other verses point back to it. It links with 13 other books, from Exodus 23 to John 3.

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Which verses does 2 Kings 18:4 point to?

The 20 strongest of 23, ranked by reader votes. Links with fewer than 4 votes are marked weak.

  1. 2 Chronicles 31:18 votes

    When all this had ended, the Israelites in attendance went out to the cities of Judah and broke up the sacred pillars, chopped down the Asherah poles, and tore down the high places and altars throughout Judah and Benjamin, as well as in Ephraim and Manasseh, until they had utterly destroyed them all. Then all the Israelites returned to their cities, each to his own property.

  2. Numbers 21:8–97 votes

    Then the LORD said to Moses, “Make a fiery serpent and mount it on a pole. When anyone who is bitten looks at it, he will live.” So Moses made a bronze snake and mounted it on a pole. If anyone who was bitten looked at the bronze snake, he would live.

  3. 2 Kings 18:224 votes

    But if you say to me, ‘We trust in the LORD our God,’ is He not the One whose high places and altars Hezekiah has removed, saying to Judah and Jerusalem: ‘You must worship before this altar in Jerusalem’?

  4. Exodus 23:243 votes

    You must not bow down to their gods or serve them or follow their practices. Instead, you are to demolish them and smash their sacred stones to pieces.

  5. Leviticus 26:303 votes

    I will destroy your high places, cut down your incense altars, and heap your lifeless bodies on the lifeless remains of your idols; and My soul will despise you.

  6. Deuteronomy 7:53 votes

    Instead, this is what you are to do to them: tear down their altars, smash their sacred pillars, cut down their Asherah poles, and burn their idols in the fire.

  7. Deuteronomy 12:2–33 votes

    Destroy completely all the places where the nations you are dispossessing have served their gods—atop the high mountains, on the hills, and under every green tree. Tear down their altars, smash their sacred pillars, burn up their Asherah poles, cut down the idols of their gods, and wipe out their names from every place.

  8. Judges 6:253 votes

    On that very night the LORD said to Gideon, “Take your father’s young bull and a second bull seven years old, tear down your father’s altar to Baal, and cut down the Asherah pole beside it.

  9. Judges 6:283 votes

    When the men of the city got up in the morning, there was Baal’s altar torn down, with the Asherah pole cut down beside it and the second bull offered up on the newly built altar.

  10. 1 Kings 3:2–33 votes

    The people, however, were still sacrificing on the high places because a house for the Name of the LORD had not yet been built. And Solomon loved the LORD and walked in the statutes of his father David, except that he sacrificed and burned incense on the high places.

  11. 1 Kings 15:12–143 votes
  12. 1 Kings 22:433 votes
  13. 2 Kings 12:33 votes
  14. 2 Kings 14:42 votes
  15. 2 Kings 15:42 votes
  16. 2 Kings 15:352 votes
  17. 2 Kings 16:152 votes
  18. 2 Chronicles 19:32 votes
  19. 2 Chronicles 33:32 votes
  20. Psalm 78:582 votes

Which verses point to 2 Kings 18:4?

The 10 strongest of 31.